"I just told them I knew, I felt it, and I just wanted to make sure," she told the Times.

Duddley White, left, and his stepdaughter Maylette Brown are seen in an undated photo provided by the family.

White is one of five people who was killed Friday when a concrete pump truck traveling west on the 10 Freeway jumped the center divider and smashed into vehicles in the freeway's eastbound lanes, sparking a fire. The scene forced the eastbound lanes to be closed until the next morning.

Officials have not yet released the names of any victims or the truck driver, who sustained minor injuries and was questioned after being treated at a hospital.

The victims' bodies were severely burned and had not been positively identified as of Saturday afternoon, a California Highway Patrol sergeant told the Times.

A separate official told KTLA on Friday it was "probably the most horrific" crash scene he'd responded to in his 10 years as a CHP officer.